3513.191
Disqualification of candidate for party primary.

(A)
No person
shall be a candidate for nomination or election at a party primary if the
person voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election
within the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years.

(B)
Notwithstanding division (A)
of this section, either of the following persons may be candidates for
nomination of any political party at a party primary:

(1)
Notwithstanding division (A) of this
section, a person who holds an elective office for which candidates are
nominated at a party primary may be a candidate at a primary election held
during the times specified in division (C)(2) of this section for nomination as
a candidate of a political party of which the person is prohibited from being a
candidate for nomination under division (A) of this section if the person files
a declaration of intent to seek the nomination of that party and if, by filing
the declaration, the person has not violated division (C)(3) of this section.
The declaration of intent shall:

(a)
Be filed
not later than four p.m. of the thirtieth day before a declaration of candidacy
and petition is required to be filed under section
3513.05 of the Revised Code;

(b)
Be filed with the same
official with whom the person filing the declaration of intent is required to
file a declaration of candidacy and petition;

(c)
Indicate the political party whose
nomination in the primary election the person seeks;

(2)
No person
filing a declaration of intent under division (C)(1) of this section shall be a
candidate at any primary election for nomination for an elective office for
which candidates are nominated at a party primary during the calendar year in
which the person files the declaration or during the next calendar year except
as a candidate of the party indicated under division (C)(1)(c) of this section.

(3)
No person who files a
declaration of intent under division (C)(1) of this section shall file another
such declaration for a period of ten years after the declaration is filed.

(4)
Notwithstanding the seventh
paragraph of section
3513.05 of the Revised Code, a
person who complies with this section may circulate that person's own petition
of candidacy for party nomination at the party primary at which the person
seeks nomination under this section.